Congratulations to University of Birmingham, JS Wright & Co and Haines Watt Birmingham – the overall winners of the PKF Cooper Parry Business Challenge at the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham 10K.

The seven-strong team from University of Birmingham scooped the trophy for the Large Business section with their four fastest runners finishing the race in a collective time of 2 hours, 40 minutes and 39 seconds.

JS Wright & Co won the Medium Business section with a collective time for their four fastest of 3:25:01 and Haines Watt Birmingham took the honours for Small Business with a winning time of 3:12:45.

See runners take part in the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham 10K

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Companies also won categories for mixed male and female teams - full details below.

Thirty teams, featuring runners of all abilities, took part in the PKF Cooper Parry Business Challenge at the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham 10K, making it the biggest 10K Business Challenge to date.

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Each company with a team of 12 or more employees received an engraved plaque in the name of the fastest runner.

The University of Birmingham had a separate team with almost 400 runners which ran separately to the Business Challenge with their own start wave.

Ade Cheatham, chief executive of PKF Cooper Parry, sponsor of this year’s Great Birmingham 10k Business Challenge, said: “Congratulations to all the businesses and teams that took part in the race and to the organisers for making it such a great event.

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“Events such as this are a fantastic way of bringing businesses and the local community together and it was great to see the streets lined with spectators, cheering on the runners as they raced for home and the glory of being crowned this year’s winner.”